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Raphael Abraham

Deputy Arts Editor

Raphael Abraham writes about film and commissions arts pieces for the FT.
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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    InterviewFilm
    The wild inside story of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice

    Screenwriter Gabriel Sherman’s film was bankrolled by a billionaire Trump donor, hit with legal threats — and had Hollywood running scared

    A blond man in suit and tie sits at a desk, a phone to his ear. There are papers and a small Stars and Stripes flag on his desk
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Film
    Five last-minute tickets for the London Film Festival

    From a John and Yoko documentary to a cartel musical thriller starring Zoe Saldaña

    A woman sits playing an upright piano while a man stands to her side playing an acoustic guitar
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    ReviewVenice Film Festival
    Joker: Folie à Deux film review — killer clown turns crooner in sedated sequel

    Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix duet dangerously in musically driven movie unveiled at the Venice Film Festival

    A blond woman and a mustached man in Joker make-up, apparently about to kiss
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Daniel Craig puts Bond behind him in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer

    The trippy adaptation of a William S Burroughs novel brings out Craig’s best-ever performance

    A man sobs into the chest of another younger man, who attempts to soothe him by resting his hand on the back of his neck
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore debate love and death in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door

    The Spanish director’s first feature-length English-language film lyrically looks back over a life

    A woman with short blond hair and a woman with long auburn hair stand side by side looking out of a window
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Five stars for The Brutalist — postwar epic of architecture and survival with Adrien Brody

    At the Venice Film Festival, director Brady Corbet tells the fascinating story of a proud man starting a new life in America

    A man looks sad as he touches heads with a woman sitting at a desk
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Nicole Kidman jump-starts the erotic thriller in Babygirl

    Writer-director Halina Reijn has made a contemporary film with both heat and brains

    A woman with long ginger hair is embraced by a tall man in a blue shirt
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Disclaimer — Cate Blanchett has a dark secret in frothy but moreish miniseries

    Director Alfonso Cuarón assembles a cast of big names in a compelling mystery

    A blond woman in a dressing gown burns a book above a sink
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Angelina Jolie makes a glamorous Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria

    The star captures the soprano’s intellect and pathos but joy and warmth are in short supply

    A woman looks haughty with heavy eyeliner and a fur collar
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Federer: Twelve Final Days — lachrymose lap of honour lacks game

    Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s documentary has pathos and PR but little on the great man’s tennis

    A man wearing sporting gear and a white headband stands in an arena and hugs another man; around him men stand applauding
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez star in gory narco-musical Emilia Pérez — Cannes film review

    Jacques Audiard conjures up an unlikely mixture of thriller and song-and-dance numbers

    A woman with a ponytail in a red velvet suit poses dramatically
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    The Apprentice is a powerful portrait of Donald Trump’s beginnings — Cannes film review

    Sebastian Stan excels as Trump, schooled by a Machiavellian mentor

    Two sneaky-looking men in grey suits sit in the back of a fancy car
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    Limonov: The Ballad is swaggering, sexy, shrewd, unsettling — Cannes film review

    Kirill Serebrennikov’s anarchic portrait of an angry iconoclast is far from a cosy biopic

    A long-haired man wearing dark glasses and smoking a cigarette stands in an urban street; behind him is a yellow New York taxi
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    Yorgos Lanthimos returns with twisted triptych Kinds of Kindness

    Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons star in three increasingly weird, dreamlike stories of sex, loss and control

    A sullen looking man sits embraced by another man and a woman
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    Andrea Arnold’s Bird takes flight with vital energy — Cannes film review

    The British director, already a three-times Jury prize-winner, has produced an urgent, propulsive new movie

    A young person floats with their eyes closed in a dark sea
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a painfully awful labour of love — Cannes review

    Another giant of 1970s cinema bites the dust with an over-ambitious camp sci-fi satire

    A man largely in silhouette looks through a small telescope to a piece of yellow glass as he stands on a rooftop high above skyscrapers
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    The Girl with the Needle — Scandi-noir fairytale lavishes on the gloom

    Magnus von Horn’s film in competition at Cannes offers sweet promises and bitter consequences

    Black and white image of a pale woman in an old-fashioned uniform and hat looking forward among a crowd of women dressed the same looking down
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Cannes Film Festival 2024: what not to miss
    The Second Act opens the Cannes Film Festival with goofy AI comedy

    Quentin Dupieux provides a light amuse-bouche before heavier fare to come

    A woman and a man stand close together in a room; she has one arm around his shoulder and appears to be challenging him — he is pressed back against a wall
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Sinner takes all: an interview with the tennis world’s new star

    The 22-year-old Italian won his first Grand Slam this year. Nobody believes it will be the last

    Nike cotton Harrington jacket, £61.65, cotton T-shirt, £22.99, elastane tennis shorts, £54.99, cotton socks, £16.99, and mesh Court Air Zoom Vapor Pro 2 sneakers, £83,99. Gucci canvas leather duffle bag, Rolex Oystersteel Oyster Perpetual Submariner watch and Head racket, all Sinner’s own
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
    Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer: ‘I’m suspicious of people making Holocaust films’

    As his Auschwitz-set movie wins three Baftas, the director talks about challenging cinema-goers — and the banality of evil

    A watercolour portrait of Jonathan Glazer seated in a restaurant
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
    The Andes plane crash story retold: ‘This film gives importance to those who didn’t make it’

    Director JA Bayona discusses ‘Society of the Snow’, which has brought together survivors and families of victims 50 years on

    Young people sitting beside a crashed plane on the snow
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
    Meet Sandra Hüller, star of two of the year’s best films

    The German actress discusses playing a woman accused of murder and the wife of the commandant of Auschwitz

    Portrait of the actress seated in black outfit, fingers interlocked around her knee
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    ReviewFilm
    London Film Festival: 10 movies to watch

    A cherry-picked selection of global cinema includes an eye-catching debut and new gems from past masters

    In a bar or nightclub, two men stand close together, smiling; one has his arm draped around the other’s shoulder
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    InterviewFilm
    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘This is the only film where I’ve respected the rules’

    The director on casting Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as cowboy lovers — and why his Western is a departure in more ways than one

    The director sits by a window in a hotel room looking outside
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Venice Film Festival
    Poor Things richly rewarded with Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

    Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos takes home top prize five years after coming second with ‘The Favourite’

    A pale woman with red lipstick and long dark hair looks decisive
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